John ichicolco

Auto start podman containers on reboot as systemd services

NOTE: This was written while I was experimenting with using podman in lieu of docker, something I'm now looking at again. Not all docker images work with podman, so be prepared to struggle with the system and to engage in many fruitless Internet searches.

Intro

OK, so who knew podman containers won't automatically start on reboot? Yeah. Me neither.

Found out after a family member complained about getting a 500 error when trying to reach a PiGallery2 instance I had set up on the home server.

Fixing this is easy, as detailed in Pratham Patel's "How to Autostart Podman Containers?" over on Linux Handbook: A systemd servic

ProxMox Cluster - Soup-to-Nutz

aka what i did to get from nothing to done.

note: these are designed to be primarily a re-install guide for myself (writing things down helps me memorize the knowledge), as such don't take any of this on blind faith - some areas are well tested and the docs are very robust, some items, less so). YMMV

Purpose of Proxmox cluster project

Required Outomces of cluster project

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Octal: \033
Unicode: \u001b
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	#!/bin/bash

	# Author: Besmir Zanaj, 2024
	# This is a very raw script to backup configs (no logs and no stats) from a technitium server
	# to another
	#
	# first create two tokens: one on the source server and another one on the destination one
	# fill out the vars below
	# create a cronjob with this script on the destinaton host
	# eg:

	#!/usr/bin/env python
	# -- coding: utf-8 --

	'''
	Description: Selects the default TMDB poster and art for items in a Plex library
	if no poster/art is selected or the current poster/art is from Gracenote.
	Author: /u/SwiftPanda16
	Requires: plexapi
	Usage:
	* Change the posters for an entire library: